India, Dec. 13 -- The stock ticker scrolls across the bottom of the screen, numbers, numbers, numbers, and a man watches it as if it is scripture. His coffee grows cold, his child calls from the other... Read More
India, Dec. 6 -- Which is the better ideology, the Left or the Right? The question is like asking a physician: which disease should I choose? The physician will say: choose health. But health, the sta... Read More
India, Dec. 6 -- Which is the better ideology, the Left or the Right? The question is like asking a physician: which disease should I choose? The physician will say: choose health. But health, the sta... Read More
India, Nov. 29 -- Eight billion people. Almost three times as many as in 1960. And still we are told the real crisis is that there aren't enough of us. In 1960, there were about 3 billion human being... Read More
India, Nov. 22 -- I return from an intense, heart-warming tour of Kolkata, a city I have long admired and whose warmth embraced me again. This is the reflection I offer. I spent a fortnight walking i... Read More
India, Nov. 22 -- I return from an intense, heartwarming tour of Kolkata, a city whose warmth embraced me again. I spent a fortnight walking its lanes, speaking in its historic halls, signing books in... Read More
India, Nov. 15 -- The 30th UN Climate Conference has opened this week in Belem, deep within the Amazon. The setting itself speaks louder than the speeches: humanity gathers in a burning forest to disc... Read More
India, Nov. 8 -- Every few years, incidents remind us that caste persists in different avatars. Our Constitution guarantees equality, yet divisions control how we live, marry, vote, and worship. Knowi... Read More
India, Nov. 1 -- November 2025 marks the sixth anniversary of COVID-19, the deadliest pandemic in modern history, which brought humankind, with all its advanced systems, science, and technologies, to ... Read More
India, Oct. 25 -- Every few years, Bihar votes with great enthusiasm. Yet when the noise settles, the same questions return: about jobs, education, and dignity. Bihar's tragedy is not that it is poor... Read More